President Donald Trump took time during a meeting with senior military leadership Monday to discuss the recent FBI search into his personal attorney’s lodgings and office in New York City, as requested by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team.

Trump said he heard of the move and believed it was a “disgraceful situation” and a “witch hunt.”

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‘Witch hunt’

“So, I just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys -- a good man. And it's a disgraceful situation. It's a total witch hunt. I've been saying it for a long time. I've wanted to keep it down. We've given, I believe, over a million pages' worth of documents to the special counsel.

“They continue to just go forward. And here we are talking about Syria and we're talking about a lot of serious things. We're the greatest fighting force ever. And I have this witch hunt constantly going on for over 12 months now, and actually, much more than that. You could say it was right after I won the nomination, it started.

“And it's a disgrace. It's, frankly, a real disgrace. It's an attack on our country, in a true sense. It's an attack on what we all stand for.

“So, when I saw this and when I heard it -- I heard it like you did -- I said, that is really now on a whole new level of unfairness.

‘Russia’

“So, this has been going on -- I saw one of the reporters, who is not necessarily a fan of mine, not necessarily very good to me. He said, in effect, that this is ridiculous; this is now getting ridiculous. They found no collusion whatsoever with Russia. The reason they found it is there was no collusion at all. No collusion. This is the most biased group of people. These people have the biggest conflicts of interest I've ever seen.

"Democrats all -- or just about all -- either Democrats or a couple of Republicans that worked for President Obama, they're not looking at the other side; they're not looking at the Hillary Clinton -- the horrible things that she did and all of the crimes that were committed. They're not looking at all of the things that happened that everybody is very angry about, I can tell you, from the Republican side, and I think even the independent side. They only keep looking at us.

So, they find no collusion, and then they go from there and they say, ‘Well, let's keep going.’ And they raid an office of a personal attorney early in the morning. And I think it's a disgrace.”

Attorney general’s recusal

“So, we'll be talking about it more. But this is the most conflicted group of people I've ever seen. The attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this, and when he recused himself. Or he should have certainly let us know if he was going to recuse himself, and we would have used a -- put a different attorney general in. So, he made what I consider to be a very terrible mistake for the country. But you'll figure that out.

“All I can say is, after looking for a long period of time -- and even before the special counsel -- because it really started just about from the time I won the nomination. And you look at what took place and what happened, and it's a disgrace. It's a disgrace.”

Mueller

The president: "Thank you very much. Thank you all very much."

Q: "Are you concerned about what the FBI might find, Mr. President? Do you have any concern?"

"The president: No, I'm not."

Q: "Why don't you just fire Mueller?"

The president: "Why don't I just fire Mueller?"

Q: "Yeah, just fire the guy."

The president: “Well, I think it's a disgrace what's going on. We'll see what happens. But I think it's really a sad situation when you look at what happened. And many people have said, 'You should fire him.' Again, they found nothing. And in finding nothing, that's a big statement."

Comey and Rosenstein

“If you know the person who's in charge of the investigation, you know about that. Deputy Rosenstein -- Rod Rosenstein -- he wrote the letter, very critical, of Comey.

“One of the things they said: 'I fired Comey.' Well, I turned out to do the right thing, because if you look at all of the things that he's done and the lies, and you look at what's gone on at the FBI with the insurance policy and all of the things that happened -- turned out I did the right thing.

“But he signed -- as you know, he also signed the FISA warrant. So Rod Rosenstein, who's in charge of this, signed a FISA warrant, and he also signed a letter that was essentially saying to fire James Comey. And he was right about that. He was absolutely right.

“So, we'll see what happens. I think it's disgraceful, and so does a lot of other people. This is a pure and simple witch hunt.”